The study of women who opposed female enfranchisement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century Britain has been neglected by historians. Anti-democratic and hostile to the labour movement of their...
This is an excellent study of a popular comedy that links it into a variety of English cultural identities. Unusually for a book classified as cultural studies, it is clearly written, and by an...
ART AND DESIGN- Building St. Paul'sBy James W. P. Campbell, fellow in architecture and history of art at Queens' College, CambridgeThames and Hudson, £12.95. ISBN 9780500342442Campbell tells the...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a science-fiction novel with dystopic elements:"Snowman wakes before dawn."Entries, including postal...
The cultural commentator Peter York was due to speak on "The Chavs and the Chav Nots" at the University College for the Creative Arts this week. Mr York's lecture, which is subtitled "understanding...
Universities are urged to focus more on practice to remain relevant to managers. John Gill reports.
"Very weak" modern language research in universities is to blame for a decline in the popularity of the subject among students, an academic has claimed.
Report says faculty will increasingly be managed by professional administrators, writes Melanie Newman.
Allegations of sex discrimination against the director of the Institute of Education have resulted in an out-of-court settlement. As reported by ÌÇÐÄVlog in June last year, Geoff Whitty...
A new chemical engineering laboratory has been opened at the University of Strathclyde. The £2 million facility will allow the department of chemical and process engineering to further its research...
A petition objecting to the University of Exeter's decision to outsource its nursery to a private company has attracted 789 signatures. The petition calls on the university to delay the tendering...
A new mental health training and research centre will be launched at the University of Reading this week. The Charlie Waller Institute of Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment is the first of its...
A multimillion-pound new city centre campus being planned by the University of Wales, Newport, moved a step closer this week with the appointment of a building contractor to prepare the site....
The lost city of Dunwich, Britain's own Atlantis, has captured the imagination for centuries - and it could soon be revealed with a survey using underwater sonar. David Sear of the University of...
Spinning a hard-boiled egg on a tabletop could help unlock the mysteries of the Earth's weather, according to a mathematician at the University of Portsmouth. Andrew Burbanks, who has been invited to...